Livin in House of Blues: Smokey Blues

Various Artists - Blues - Modern/Electric, House Of Blues (Series) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 11, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: House of Blues
• ASIN: B000003QYA
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Track Listings

1. Stormy Monday Blues

2. The Right Time

3. Blues for a Day

4. Moanin' N' Ticklin'

5. Blues After Hours

6. These Blues

7. After Hours

8. You'll Never Know

9. After Hours Joint

10. Worried Life Blues

11. Blues for the Nightowls

12. So Long

13. Mother Earth

14. Nobody in Mind

15. For Abby

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Lot of Jive, August 24, 2005

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This review is from: Livin in House of Blues: Smokey Blues (Audio CD)

This is an excellent collection of blues tunes done with classic renditions. The pace is slow & easy with blues that makes you shake your head back & forth an inch at 4 a.m. when you feel low & the bottle's hitting fumes. John Lee Hooker smokes on "The Right Time," "Come on, baby, Hold my hand tight as you can, squeeze me & tell me I'm the one you love." Dinah Washington recorded "Blues for a Day" in 1945. It sounds great with this 1997 release and Washington packing each phrase with feeling, "Don't drift too far, daddy, Stick around so that you'll be near. You don't need to go out, daddy cause I got everything you need right here." The track has some luscious sax dripping wet with emotion. Blues guitarist Pee Wee Crayton cut the smoking instrumental "Blues After Dark" that sizzles with his dreamy guitar in 1948. Pinetop Perkins' recorded "After Hours" for the Blind Pig label in 1988 with his piano crying soulfully. Big Maybelle recorded "You'll Never Know" in 1954 for the OKeh label and aches convincingly. Saxman Jimmy Coe with James Palmer on an insurgent piano does his party talk over the 1953 recording of "After Hours Joint." Memphis Slim's "Mother Earth" from 1950 touted death as the great equalizer, "Don't care how great you are, don't care how much you're worth, when it all ends up you got to go back to Mother Earth." Big Joe Turner cut "Nobody In Mind" in 1947, "Give a chick a dollar, next time you got to give her 5; See the chicks ain't out for nothin', boy, but a lot of jive." This is an excellent blues collection! Enjoy!

1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great stuff, November 29, 1998

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This review is from: Livin in House of Blues: Smokey Blues (Audio CD)

Not a losing track. Top of our rotation for several weeks